As the benefits or returns to education become more and more apparent, there is increasing interest in ensuring accessible, high quality education. The increasing body of research available on the effects of school choice and competition suggests that education is broadly improved when parents have choice and schools are forced to compete.

Canadian governments enacted Keynesian-inspired fiscal stimulus plans in 2009. These plans were to be a temporary response to the global economic recession. The stimulus spending was to be withdrawn after two years and program spending was then to be brought under control and returned to pre-stimulus trends.

Whenever governments are strapped for cash, eyes quickly turn to corporate income taxes as an expedient and presumed painless way to help balance their books. The erroneous thinking behind raising corporate income taxes, however, is that corporations and not people bear their burden. Economic theory and common sense both argue that corporate taxes are actually paid by consumers, workers, and/or investors.